Life on the road

Evan Ravenel, who plays his last home game for Ohio State on Sunday, recounted today what it was like trying to get home from his last road game after the Buckeyes' upset win at No.2 Indiana on Tuesday night.

With a paralyzing snowstorm blowing through Indiana and Ohio overnight, the team's chartered jet could not land in Bloomington because the small airport there, which does not handle commercial flights, did not have enough de-icing fluid to put on the jet to allow it to take off again.

So the jet waited at the Indianapolis airport while the team bused from Bloomington, a trip that normally would take about an hour but, with snow and ice clogging the roads, took about twice that long.

"There was snow everywhere," Ravenel said. "We had a police escort. It was crazy. We actually (saw) a couple of 18-wheelers spin off the road. It was nuts. I was kind of worried myself."

Once in Indianapolis, there was another delay of nearly two hours while snow was cleaned off the Buckeyes' jet and it was de-iced. Then, before they could land in Port Columbus, they circled the airport for about 45 minutes, a team spokesman said, before a runway was plowed to allow them to land.

"I didn't get home till about 6 in the morning," Ravenel said.

It was an "exhausting" night, he said, but unforgettable in more ways than one.

"I’ve never seen a locker room so excited, beating a great team like Indiana at their place, no easy task."